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SoLANUM GIGANTEUM. Tautt NiGHTSHADE. 
gS sea atk oak dead 
Class and Order. 
~ Penranpria Monocynia. — 
Generic Character. 
Cor. rotata. Anthere subcoalite, apice poro gemino 
dehiscentes. Bacca 2-locularis. mes 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Sotanum giganteum; caule aculeato fruticoso: aculeis 
_tomentosis, foliis lanceolatis acutis mermibus supra 
 gilabris subtus tomentosis et incanis, racemis dichotomis 
cymosis terminalibus. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 1046. Hort. 
Kew. ed, alt. 1. p. 404. Jacq. Collect. 4. p. 105. Icon. 
Rar. 2. t. 328. Dunal Solan. p. 202. | 
_Souanum nivewmn; caule fruticoso aculeato, foliis ellipticis 
: integerrimis inermibus subtus tomentosis niveis. Vahl 
Symb. 2. p. 41. | 
Sotanum niveum ; caule aculeato fruticoso, foliis ovatis 
subtus tomentoso-niveis integris, panicula decomposita. 
Thunb. Prodr. 36. Persoon Syn. 1. p, 229. 3 
Said to grow in its native country to the height of sixteen 
feet, with a stem as thick as a man’s arm, furnished with 
stout short prickles. ‘The plant from which our drawing was 
taken was little more than four feet high, upright, little 
branchedaculeate ; prickles thickset, conical, short, tomentose 
towards their base, naked and yellow at the point : branches 
covered with white hoary tomentum. Leaves oblong- — 
elliptical, narrowed at both ends, unarmed, smooth on the 
upper surface, tomentose, white underneath. Flowers pale- 
violet, small, not unlike those of Dulcamara, growing in ~ 
a compound cyme, nearly terminal, but becoming lateral by 
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